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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (14590)	2/14/2002 8:37:24 AM
From: Augustus Gloop	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23786

Damn lets get it right guys! Thursday February 14, 7:52 am Eastern Time Microsoft Security Patch Said Ineffective NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) program designed to plug a common security hole is vulnerable to the very attack it was designed to prevent, the Wall Street Journal alleged in a report on Thursday, citing a prominent security consulting firm. Last month Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced a company-wide initiative to improve the security features of its products. Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled a collection of programming tools, including a new version of a special-purpose program that it modified to try to prevent a common hacker attack called buffer overflows, the Journal said. Researchers at Cigital, of Dulles, Va., found that Microsoft apparently adopted a technique that has been used with the Linux operating system and shown to be vulnerable to attack, the Journal said. As a result, the program, called Visual C++.NET, could lead programmers to write even more programs that are vulnerable to buffer-overflow attacks, the Journal alleged. Microsoft was not immediately available to comment